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What has opened, what has changed, and what is worth knowing before you go.

The region in brief

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Mozambique

Mozambique's Coast Remains One of Africa's Best-Kept Secrets

The Quirimbas Archipelago in northern Mozambique remains one of the last genuinely wild stretches of tropical coastline on Africa's east coast, its shoreline interrupted only by small fishing villages and a handful of quiet properties. The Bazaruto Archipelago in the south offers easier access and some of the finest diving on the continent. Humpback whales pass through between June and October. The dry season runs May to November and is the right time to go.

23 Sept 2026

Five worth knowing

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Mozambique

Gorongosa, Mozambique

Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique was one of Africa's great wildlife reserves before two decades of civil war reduced it to almost nothing. The recovery, driven by a long-term partnership between the Mozambican government and the Carr Foundation, is now widely regarded as one of the most successful rewilding efforts on the continent. Lion, elephant, buffalo and wild dog populations have all returned. The park's terrain, centred on the floodplains of the Urema Valley and rising into the rainforest of Mount Gorongosa, offers a landscape that differs entirely from the classic savanna safari. It remains almost entirely absent from premium travel itineraries. The reader who goes this year goes before that changes.

23 Sept 2026